When It Is Used
This tool is used when a teen needs concrete sensory options for tolerating distress between sessions.
Self-Soothe with Six Senses for adolescent DBT practice
Self-Soothe with Six Senses is a teen-oriented DBT-A distress-tolerance tool for clinicians teaching adolescents how to use sensory coping actions during stressful situations. It helps the teen identify stressful contexts, choose soothing actions across six sensory channels, and report whether practice helped with feelings, urges, or conflict.
Explore the teen practice and review a sample result.
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Tool guide
Learn more about this tool
Use this background section to understand when the tool fits, how practitioners use it, and what to consider before sharing it with clients.
What It Captures
It captures stressful contexts, self-soothing actions by sensory channel, practice attempts, perceived helpfulness, and barriers.
History
Prior coping-plan versions and practice entries remain available so the practitioner can compare fit and use over time.
Does the tool score coping ability?
No. It provides descriptive summaries of the teen's coping plan and practice reports, but it does not score coping ability or draw clinical conclusions.
Can the teen complete a plan before practicing it in a real stressful situation?
Yes. The practitioner can use a plan-only first pass and request practice follow-up later.
What happens if not all six senses have entries?
Missing sensory channels are shown as missing, not treated as failure.
Does sample demo content become client data when saved?
No. Saving preserves the tool and reusable practitioner settings, not fictional demo responses.